ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,418, issued on July 15, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicular battery case" was invented by Kanna Nagatsuka (Kariya, Japan), Naoyuki Ota (Kariya-shi, Japan), Masato Oishi (Kariya, Japan) and Hiroshi Okazaki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular battery case includes a bottom plate portion having a temperature-adjustment fluid path. The path includes first and second outer path portions being apart from each other; a central path portion positioned therebetween; a plurality of first intermediate path portions positioned between the first outer path portion and the central path portion, being in co...